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This is an adaptation of the ALIENS board game made by Leading Edge Games into Flash.

It is a hard game, but there are only 3 missions. Enjoy the difficulty.

Good luck.

"One express elevator to hell, going down"
-Hudson

TIPS:
Flamer kills don't have acid spray. Use them on aliens up close, but when the alien is on a marine, it's too late for flamers. Use melee (fist icon) to try to throw the alien off.

Pistols are almost useless. These marines should just move or help melee an alien off one of his buddies.

Grenades kill aliens 1 square away from the blast square, but injure marines up to 6 squares away. Plus, there is a chance the grenade will miss the target square by one, so plan carefully if you want to use grenades.

NOTE: It was designed for 1024x786, so I'm sorry if it's hard to make out some details in 800x600.

07/25 2008 - uploaded V1.2
Fixed many bugs.
Added ammo restrictions.
Added the ability to flame the ground.
Added the Apone rule into the Reactor mission.
Improved the Alien AI.
Added a score system (Thanks to DMC for the idea).
Added a brightness control.
Fit the preloader music in.

12/04 - uploaded V1.1
Fixed some bugs.
Added some features to help first time players.
Mission summary now tracks total and individual kills, just for fun.

11/06 - uploaded a new version.
Fixed a sound bug.
Juggled the sound to include music at the menu.
Added an indicator that an alien target has a marine.

Reviews

Rated 2 / 5 stars2014-07-10 01:46:29

The experience is there, but this game isn't so much difficult as unfair.

Once someone gets hit by a xeno, it's fucking over for them. It always gives you a chance to attack like that's going to save them or something, but even if you do kill the alien, the person is still incapacitated. Why even bother?

Secondly, in Operations, SO MANY XENOS come out of the fucking woodwork that it's absolutely ridiculous. The inability to control Burke makes this literally impossible because everybody's dead by the time he get's his fat ass down the hallway, and then he sits in a closet waiting for his shit to get wrecked.

This game seems like it'd be a lot of fun, but the difficulty prevents me from having any kind of fun with it.

Rated 0 / 5 stars2013-08-18 16:34:48

Don't waste your time. This game shows promise, but it's hilariously bad. I got to the last level and alien bombs started dropping everywhere. In one turn 10 aliens dropped all around my guys. I started laughing it was so ridiculous. The game cheats like that. There is nothing random about the alien drops. One of the aliens "walked through" the wall after I had walled it off with fire. Stupid. I honestly believe the maker of this can't stand for people to beat his game. I've played it before and it wasn't like how it is now. How can this game be rated so high? Again, avoid at all costs.

Rated 0 / 5 stars2013-04-21 01:45:23

Awful game. It claims to be like the original Leading Edge board game, but resembles it in appearance only - this coming from someone who used to own the original board game. This flash game used to be excellent, but whoever created it decided to destroy it. They have the talent to make a great game, but they don't understand what makes a game great. Playability is awful. 50s roll like 30s. 70s, 80s, and 90s roll like 50s, 60s, and 70s. Aliens now pop out of places they never did before to such an extent it borders on cheating. Newt gets stuck on the question marks three times as much as she did in the actual board game, leading to infuriating results. Enter the final level with eight marines (maybe even fewer now, I don't know for sure) and way too many aliens come so that it is literally impossible to succeed given the limited number of moves and ammo. Just swarm after swarm, making any forward progress next to impossible. It's really a shame, too. It used to be really great game, but the creator doesn't realize that games are supposed to be FUN. Yes, games need to be challenging, and this one used to be. Now it's unplayable. I wasn't going to write a bad review since the game is free, but it just got too ridiculous.